Zombie Man

Only by being higher in level over the foe you're attempting to TP -- level differential increases/decreases the magnitude of the target.

Otherwise.... no.

Nope. The Television is Matt Stults who's been working here a while and was promoted to lead programmer.

The new community moderator is Arbiter Kim.

The new content designer is Dr. Aeon, mentioned above.

One of the new producers is Doc Delilah who only has one post so far.

And that's it for new-hire rednames.

Do you want to check your 'i' before 'e' rules and the exceptions and get back to us whether there really is 10 badges there?

Go ahead and add the 700 words to the dictionary... we'll wait.


BTW, is 'blarch' a badge name?

And that's the worst kind of evil... insidious.

Well, there you go, it's random. Thanks.

Welcome, Rick Astley to the forums. I see that you only joined this month and you already have 14 posts! Good for you!!

If you have any questions about the game just ask.

It's as evil as pet rocks, glow sticks, and super bowl parties.

Actually, he has three minions now, so, I'm guessing they're level-pacted.

As I mentioned in the OP, they hired Dr. Aeon to precisely do that. And he was a player active here on the forums. See here:

paragonwiki.com/wiki/Dr. Aeon (Developer)

And that's also the job of War Witch and Hero 1.

Also they have two other writers designated 'World Designer' and that's John Hegner and Paul Gunn. At HeroCon, John was on the panel describing Praetoria.

And there's two others designated 'designer' but I'm not sure what they do... could be writing or powers or world...

And Matt's writing and designing 'end game' content.

See here for the list of known employees.

They've recently taken to having ads on their site, too, so, not surprising.

In the last Closed Beta, the Friends and Family phase lasted half a day before they started inviting the first wave of hand-picked veteran play-testers. There were four more waves just that week.

The purpose of waves is to not overwhelm the fragile set-up on the servers where none of the code has been optimized yet. Also, the Devs learned the hard way that when you let in a lot of people all at once, they all do the same thing and they all send in the same bug reports overwhelming Q&A's ability to sort through them. Not to mention the overwhelming of the global testing channel and the swarming of the Dev appearances.

They keep the initial numbers small so that all the broken stuff is identified, reported, and made known. This first group gets their hands held by the Devs ("Yes, we know that's broken." or "That's odd, let me pop into your mission and see it."). The following waves get their hands held by the previous waves ("Yes, the devs know about that.").

This is probably why HeroCon attendees get in before 5 month Vets since they're a smaller pool.


If anyone's longing to be one of the first in, let me remind you that the early days of the CoV beta were UNPLAYABLE. Only a handful of missions were playable and the disconnects and rubber-banding lag was constant. There were several times I just stopped trying to test the CoV beta until the next patch came out.

Anyone who gets into Beta early and whines about anything broken is going to be ridiculed and told to get out by me and many of the other regular beta testers. You don't belong there if you're just looking to play or get a sneak peak. Wait for Open Beta for that. Paragon Studios does *not* use Closed Beta as a marketing tool -- it's work.

Nope, the radius of affect is 30 feet.

I've tested the distance in game and it is indeed 225 ft.

CoD is wrong on the range of Team Teleport. It was never 25 ft. But, the in-game 'real numbers' is wrong, too, since it says 25 ft.

So, if the in-game real description of Scrambled is wrong, then CoD will be wrong.

Of course, the easiest way to test this is with a toon that is much higher in level than the Tarantula. If Scrambled doesn't miss that toon, then the Ranged component is missing for that power.

Y'all is used by people who can't understand whether 'you' is being used plurally or singularly by context. There might be a few exceptional cases where the 'all' prevents confusion.

And if you're going to be a Southern apologist, then explain the correctness of "all y'all."